Scent Bar 107
Lemon opens cleanly — a single citrus note that is bright, tart, and brief.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Mossy70
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Magnolia
- Strawberry
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens cleanly — a single citrus note that is bright, tart, and brief. The opening phase is transparent and refreshing before the transition to the base begins.
White musk, sandalwood, oakmoss, rosewood, ambergris, and vanilla form a complex, layered base. The oakmoss and ambergris together create a classic, slightly maritime-mossy quality, while sandalwood and rosewood add creaminess and wood. Vanilla softens the whole.
The dry-down is a rich, mossy-woody accord with vanilla warmth and ambergris depth — a surprisingly complex base for a simple citrus opening. The base has a quality-oriented, slightly vintage character that makes this more interesting than the single lemon top note suggests.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
